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Introducing Story-Strategic Methods
Twelve Steps toward Effective Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
The purpose of Introducing Story-Strategic Methods is to awaken us in the cross-cultural context. Our natural tendency is to be asleep to our own cultural values and core worldview assumptions. This tendency applies as well to our expectations in the cross-cultural context. For example, in what ways...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
As the world grows increasingly complex, human beings need more, not less, good counsel for Christian living. This book reaches into the treasury of Anglican spirituality and draws out pearls of wisdom for today's needs. The Anglican tradition has shown an abiding concern for a holy living that leads...
Elders Lead a Healthy Family
Shared Leadership for a Vibrant Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Elders Lead a Healthy Family explores the biblical paradigm for shared leadership: elders as the spiritual "big brothers" and shepherds to the family of God. This book is a fresh biblical alternative to the standard fare of pragmatic church leadership. Delivered in a winsome and irenic style,...
by John Gatta
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The biblical story of Jesus' Transfiguration on a high mountain bristles with meanings germane to present-day concerns and spiritual longings. Together with its later artistic representations, this episode from the synoptic gospels seizes the imagination as an icon of mystical hope, beauty, and possibility....
Preaching Like the Prophets
The Hebrew Prophets as Examples for the Practice of Pastoral Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
The Old Testament prophets are a neglected treasury of biblical examples for pastoral preaching. Too often the prophets are misunderstood as focusing on future or social justice issues. This book shows that the prophets are essentially preachers--very good ones--whom we must learn from. By comparing...
A Stranger is Calling
Jews, Christians, and Muslims as Fellow Travelers
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Abraham, the father of all believers, plays host to three strangers, one of whom is God, and thus sets an example for others to follow. Jews, Christians, and Muslims often treat each other as strangers. Their Holy Books are not the cause of their conflicts and enmity but rather show the way to solve...
Van Gogh and the Art of Living
The Gospel According to Vincent van Gogh
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Vincent van Gogh believed that one had to learn to read, just as one had to learn to see and learn to live. Van Gogh conveyed a message in his work about the path that he himself followed that was more true to life, the path that human beings walk in their turbulent existence, the pilgrimage along...
Neither Necessary nor Inevitable
“History Needn’t Have Been Like That”
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Historic determinism is a convenient way to tie up the uncomfortable loose ends in the tragic lives of millions and to explain, at the same time, the exceptional opportunities of many of the rest of us. A belief in an inevitable chain of events or the will of God, or destiny, or historic necessity...
by A. J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Questions regarding the orthodoxy of Dale Moody and Ralph Elliott propelled the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) toward a re-evaluation of its doctrinal statement, the Baptist Faith and Message (BFM). The SBC adopted this document in 1925 under the leadership of E. Y. Mullins when faced by the challenge...
Shalom Yesterday, Today, and Forever
Embracing All Three Dimensions of Creation and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
When we hear the word shalom we think first of the common Jewish greeting. Then, perhaps, we consider the promise Jesus, the Prince of Peace, gave to his followers to grant them a peace the world cannot provide. In the Bible, the word shalom means much more than the absence of hostility--it means...
Old Historians, New Historians, No Historians
The Derailed Debate on the Genesis of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This polemical volume tackles the thorny and controversial issue of the vastly different narratives told (or manufactured) by the two parties of the conflict in the Middle East (the Arabs and Israel), focusing on 1948, where it all started. While all sides in this debate have vested interests, this...
Christianophobia
The Persecution of Christians under Islam
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
In the present upheaval in the Islamic world, as chaos, war, and vengeance are overtaking order, security, and civil rights, Muslim radicals have been venting their frustrations among their minorities, most of whom are Christian: from ancient Chaldeans in Iraq to Orthodox denominations in Turkey;...
by Didier Decoin
Language: French
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Tout commence par un massacre d’Indiens en décembre 1890 dans le Dakota du Sud. Jayson Flannery, un photographe anglais veuf de son état, recueille une petite fille de trois ans dont la mère a été victime du massacre. Il songe bien sûr à confier Emily à un orphelinat, s’apprête à reprendre...
by Didier Decoin
Language: French
Release Date: May 31, 2006
Language: French
Release Date: May 31, 2006
Oui, la vie dHenri Decoin valait bien un roman. Et elle valait bien un roman de son fils. On na pas retenu de Decoin père quil avait été dans sa jeunesse, recordman de France de natation et sélectionné pour les Jeux olympiques de 1912. On ne se souvient plus de lui comme ayant fait partie de...